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  Education, merit & justice are important factors for sustainable development: VC-SU
  By RT Correspondent
JAMSHORO: The Vice Chancellor University of Sindh Mr. Mazharul Haq Siddiqui has said that education, merit and justice are important factors for sustainable development of the society and urged to invest more on education for its benefits to the country.
He was speaking as Chief in inaugural session of two-day workshop on Youth in Governance organized by Transparency International Karachi in collaboration with University of Sindh and Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Tuesday. The workshop was attending by students and teachers from the public and private sector Universities of the country.
The Vice Chancellor said that governance is a concept, which relates to control authority most important factors are transparency and accountability. He said that about governance the efforts emphasis on two important factors, check and balance and governance itself. Mr. Siddiqui said that governance should not relate to government or public sector only but it covers society as well as organizations. He said that to achieve the object of the good governance the merit as well as justice is paramount important .
He said that University of Sindh has developed a system to enroll students on merit and selection of faculty only on merit through transparent system.
He said that in result of transparent system and importance to merit in selection of faculty , the teachers who are engaged in Ph.D research abroad, reports of their supervisors are encouraging not only for the University but for the whole society. He said that how society is important and added that justice with students and teachers is justice with whole society.
He said that holding accountability is important area, which would strengthen the governance system. He said that education is foundation of any society and one of weakness of foundation of society which is given least important and added that how much important and attention is given in allocation of funds for the education. He said that society wants education, society wants higher education and society wants quality of education and added that very low allocation as 2 percentage has been spending by the Country to foundation of society. He said that quality of leadership in all fields can be produced through education and set goals can be achieved only with resources allocated for the best education.
He said that Pakistan is not poor in natural resources and added that look to Japan, which is spending its GDP, which is twice to all Muslim countries. The Vice Chancellor said that with attention on education and human resources and with paramount importance to merit and justice society can be developed to achieve its goals for the development.
The Chief Executive of Transparency International Karachi , the global civil society organization, Saad Rasheed said that their organization is fighting against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world. On its first day of the workshop, Dr. Asadullah Kazi Vice Chancellor, Isra University, Dr. Rafia Ahmed Shaikh, Pro-Vice Chancellor University of Sindh, Dr. Mansoor Kundi, Dean of Languages University of Balochistan, Mrs. Hanifa Kazi, Miss Umera Samreen and other scholars also delivered their lectures.
Nabi Bux Daudpota’s death anniversary
observed
27th death anniversary of Late Prof. Nabi Bux Daudpota founding director of the Institute of Business Administration ( IBA) University of Sindh was observed on Tuesday. A large number teachers and students attended Quran Khuwani and fateha at the main auditorium of the IBA. Teachers and students of morning and evening shifts of IBA led by Dr. Anwar Ali Shah Dean Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration attended fateha and floral wreath ceremony at mausoleum of Late Daudpota.